| For a film directed by Chor Yuen and choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping, I expected a little more. Tsung Hua stars as an orphaned bumpkin searching for the parents he never knew. Lily Li portrays a little beggar that befriends and falls in love with Tsung Hua.
Our hero, ignorant of the ways of life, is soon framed for a murder committed by the lookalike brother he never knew. This is all orchestrated by his evil rich father who in fact raped a maid that turned out to be his mother. The father is willing to sacrifice his bastard son in order to save his favorite son at all costs!
With this said, I thought the story, direction, and acting were good, especially Lily Li. Tsung Hua was just a little too naive for me, but that's how his character was scripted. There are some fight scenes, but you mainly get most of the action in the last twenty minutes of the film. Overall a good feature but I thought it could have been better. A nice drama for some, action lovers beware unless you fast forward to the end. |